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Malaysian ex-PM Najib working on conditions to start house arrest, his lawyers say

Pakistan Published 20 September 2026, 09:52 · archived 20 Sep 2026

SINGAPORE: Malaysia’s jailed former prime minister, Najib Razak, is working to fulfil the conditions to leave jail and begin his house arrest, including ​paying a 50-million-ringgit ($12-million) fine, his lawyers said on Sunday. Najib’s ability to ‌satisfy the condition “do not lie in his own hands” as a significant part of his assets, bank accounts and properties remain subject to freeze orders and enforcement proceedings ​by the government, the lawyers said in a statement. Najib, prime ​minister from 2009 to 2018, was found guilty of corruption in ⁠relation to the embezzlement of billions o...

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